"We were received into the elements of the eternal pearl as water takes light into itself, with no change in its substance" [Emphasis added] is from Dante's Divine Comedy, translated by John Ciardi who explained that Dante and Beatrice entered the Sphere of the Moon "as light [enters] into water, as God incarnated himself into man, or as the saved soul reenters God, without disruption of the substance thus entered. [Emphasis added] " [1]
[1] Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy. The Paradiso, Canto II, pages 606-7. Trans. John Ciardi. New York: New American Library, 2003.
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